Empirical Economics

Economic volatility and financial deepening in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel cointegration with cross-sectional heterogeneity and endogenous structural breaks

Vinay Kumar Singh, Salah Abosedra, Ali Fakih, Sajal Ghosh, Kakali Kanjilal

Commodity price shocks and the business cycles in emerging economies: the role of banking system balance sheets

Alfredo Villca, Alejandro Torres-García

Commodity currency reactions and the Dutch disease: the role of capital controls

Kai Chen, Dongwon Lee

Climate transition risk in determining credit risk: evidence from firms listed on the STOXX Europe 600 index

• Open Access

Daniel Ramos-García, Carmen López-Martín, Raquel Arguedas-Sanz

The impact of pandemic on dynamic volatility spillover network of international stock markets

Tingting Lan, Liuguo Shao, Hua Zhang, Caijun Yuan

Multiple dimensions of private information in life insurance markets

Xi Wu, Li Gan

How effective are universal payments for raising consumption? Evidence from a natural experiment

Seungjun Baek, Seongeun Kim, Tae-hwan Rhee, Wonmun Shin

Disentangling the effect of household debt on consumption

Rutger Teulings, Bram Wouterse, Kan Ji

Oil price shocks and China’s consumer and entrepreneur sentiment: a Bayesian structural VAR approach

Peng Li, Yaofu Ouyang

Inverse Balassa–Samuelson effect in Mexico: the role of the oil sector

Arnoldo López-Marmolejo, Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària, Gerardo Sebastián Diaz Muro

Global and local components of output gaps

• Open Access

Florian Eckert, Nina Mühlebach

Measuring macroeconomic convergence and divergence within EMU using long memory

Lena Dräger, Theoplasti Kolaiti, Philipp Sibbertsen

The impact of fiscal rules on government debt: evidence from the CFA zone

Christine Olivia Strong

Effects of smart city construction on employment: mechanism and evidence from China

Rongjie Lv, Hao Gao

COVID-19, lockdowns and international trade: evidence from firm-level data

João Amador, Carlos Melo Gouveia, Ana Catarina Pimenta

Impact of tropical cyclones on sustainable development through loops and cycles: evidence from select developing countries of Asia

Sweta Sen, Narayan Chandra Nayak, William Kumar Mohanty

Correction to: Business cycle clocks: Time to get circular

• Correction

Nuno Lourenço, António Rua